From Newsgroup: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Ubiquitous <
weberm@polaris.net> writes:
Neutronium is the fictional material collected from the heart of
collapsed Neutron Stars in Star Trek. But it is based on a real life
thing, the hypothetical matter state of an all Neutron solid. Also the collapsed heart of a supermassive star. But if that is the case, then
there is a glaring issue with it, which I'll look at in this video.
https://youtu.be/R4yFhnLuOyI?si=iNTjE0Zf5DywzVdg
I wasn't aware they utilized such terminology in star trek. I assume
it's a sort of 'metal' used in the construction of something. How cute, but
a typical hand-wavy sci-fi concept.
Neutron stars are remnants of supergiant stellar cores. The exotic state
of matter, in a stellar remnant, adopts its properties due to the
intense gravitational forces at work.
This is tantamount to water at the bottom of the deep ocean. Take a
bottle of deep ocean water and dump it on the surface of the ocean, it
won't stay compressed.
If one had a method of removing an amount of matter from a stellar
remnant, the lack of intense gravitational forces acting on the sample
would allow it to revert, albeit violently, to its natural
state. Explosive decompression.
I wouldn't want to be in the room.
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